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Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000
At 06:06 PM 12/18/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 8:20 PM -0500 12/18/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
>>http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/18/fbi.spy/index.html
>>FBI agent spied for Soviet Union, Russia.
>>Too bad he didn't have access to the Clipper database. That would
>>have helped us find its free market price.
>
>...and who's to say he didn't? Anyone who bought it--the Russians, for
>example--would hardly have been likely to publicize their purchase.
>
>(Maybe if _we_ purchased it, we'd publicize the purchase, but nearly anyone
>else would not.)
Or maybe he could just _claim_ to have sold the database. That'd work just
as well, I think. Think how much trouble the gov't would have to go to do
disprove him!
Jim Bell
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